Frankenmac

Just trying to get an opinion here. Normally I buy a Mac and the warranty apple care which has come in handy many times. However with this latest purchase I do not have an Applecare warranty with it. The one year warranty is out so it sort of puts me in a unique position to make the mac I want,

I was thinking of upgrading my Hard Drive to an SSD drive and moving my existing HD to the Optical Drive Bay in my Late 2011 Macbook Pro. I wil be running both OSX natively and Windows 8 Pro once Apple updates the Bootcamp drivers.

Does anyone know how hard doing this is? I am a reasonably intelligent guy but not an engineer.

Just trying to get an opinion here. Normally I buy a Mac and the warranty apple care which has come in handy many times. However with this latest purchase I do not have an Applecare warranty with it. The one year warranty is out so it sort of puts me in a unique position to make the mac I want,

I was thinking of upgrading my Hard Drive to an SSD drive and moving my existing HD to the Optical Drive Bay in my Late 2011 Macbook Pro. I wil be running both OSX natively and Windows 8 Pro once Apple updates the Bootcamp drivers.

Does anyone know how hard doing this is? I am a reasonably intelligent guy but not an engineer.

Thanks

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Check out OWC they have the caddy for the hdd to fit in the optical drive swapping an sad out is easy the whole thing will require a screw tray Phillips and a torx set (maybe) very easy if you need help check out ifixit but you should be able to just see what needs to happen.....

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